A day after joining the Congress, former Shiv Sainik Sada Sarvankar on Friday alleged that party executive chief Uddhav Thackeray ordered the recent attack on the residence of former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi.

"Uddhav gave us the orders to attack Joshi's house," said Sarvankar, who was elected to the Maharashtra assembly in 2004 on a Sena ticket.

On September 20, Sarvankar's supporters demonstrated violently outside the senior Sena leader's Shivaji Park residence, accusing him of being responsible for the refusal of ticket to him.

Peeved at being denied a ticket from Mahim constituency for the October 13 assembly elections, Sarvankar quit the Sena and joined the Congress in the presence of industry minister Narayan Rane, a former Sena chief minister.
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